22 January 2008

 

1. Faculty advisor: unanimous vote for Margaret Higgins; if she can’t do it, and Tom Wilding is available, he could be an alternative.

 

2. Decided that dues will be $15/yr: $5 to PLG and $10 to our chapter.

 

3. Officer positions once we become official: President, Vice President/Treasurer, Secretary/Web Master, Event Coordination Manager (to oversee all projects), & Fundraising Coordinator.

 

4. Meetings: will be every Tuesday at 5pm until we get going and don’t need to meet as often. Next week, we will meet by the Burger King in the Union, and then find a regular spot for subsequent meetings. February 5th will potentially (hopefully!) be a bigger meeting, since it will be the first after sending out an email to irls admin.

 

5. Progress in becoming official: Nicole and Rachel will meet with Leslie sometime this week or early next week (hopefully: waiting to hear back), Nicole is still waiting for PLG person to write back again (if he doesn’t by the end of this week, Nicole will contact him again). Then, we need to become official through the UA: Rachel is going to look into the process and let us know what to do and when.

 

6. Nicole is going to check if PLG is only for SIRLS students, and Jacy informed us that for a graduate student chapter, only 50% of members need to be grad students (good to know).  POST-MEETING UPDATE FROM NICOLE:  Nicole says: "I looked on PLG about non-library students joining, and it seems it is only for library students (student chapter) or library workers (community chapter).  Here is the quote from the page: 'To establish a chapter, a minimum of three library workers or library school students must submit a letter of intent, along with...' This, however, doesn't mean we aren't free to work with any other groups we'd like, though as far as non-library-affiliated persons joining PLG, that probably won't work."

 

7. We need to work on a constitution to have ready for becoming a group through UA; we also need to work on a statement of intent to submit to PLG with our dues and membership forms. We should probably also work on officer descriptions. We will collaboratively work on this, for those who would like to contribute, in the wiki. Amy has created a Collaboration page for this.

 

8. Recap of ideas for projects/events: Native Libraries or Ghana Library (providing assistance with organization, etc.), voting/voter registration, zine fest (possibly including Dorothy from Cat and Girl), Lost Film Fest (Nicole will email Jacy with more information for booking this at La Placita), having U of A Librarian Atifa Rawan speak about the Afghan Digital Libraries, holding a debate about library issues, having Peter Young speak about prison libraries, animal rights, and activism (and about his case too, if we can get anyone from the law school involved), speakers/workshops/or etc. about libraries going green (Danielle will look into this, and Michelle has offered to look into sustainable publishing), getting involved with other activist groups (including women’s studies/the Haven), and I forgot to mention this, but us putting on a workshop or organizing a skill share (examples could be online searching, fact checking, etc. to help inform activists or members of the community or other students).

 

9. Fundraising… t-shirts were the only idea we discussed so far. We all agreed we should use non-sweatshop materials (e.g. VG Kids, whom also do screen printing). Danielle’s boyfriend might be able to design something, or Nicole’s friend Matt could possibly draw a design. There is also a local screen printing shop by campus we could look into.

 

10. For the next meeting: think of any other ideas for events, fundraising ideas, other activist groups we’d like to work with (as an example, Nicole would be interested in working with Earth First!, the vegan/animal rights group on campus, and/or Dry River). Also, start thinking about if you’d want to run for an officer position, as we’ll probably start voting after the meeting post-listserv-email. I will try to make an agenda before the meeting and email it so we stay on track better, and the meeting flows a little better too.

 

 

In attendance: Shiori, Jacy, Lisa, Danielle, Rachel, Michelle, Amy, & Nicole

 

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